Calling all tenors. This is the 10 News Kid Takeover.

The new year is almost here. So Bethany turned the show over to kids to count down some of our favorite things from 2021.

Today, we're sharing our picks for the best books of the year.

I'm Nic Nicholas Sober.

It's Tuesday, December 21st, and this is the 10 News.

10.

9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Have you read any Keeper of the Lost City books?

Or maybe you're into the Skyfall trilogy?

They both make the list of the 10 News Toppics for Great Books.

And they're both written by bestselling author Shannon Messenger, who sat down with two

special 10 News correspondents to talk about these super series.

Hi, Shannon. It's so great to have you with us here today on the 10 News. We are big fans.

I will say that we are even super pans, and we're really excited to talk to you.

Well, I'm so excited to be here. This is so much fun, especially since we don't get to go out

in person as much. It's so nice to get to meet

with readers and fans and, you know, have a nice morning together. Wonderful. And I'm joined today by

my daughter, Naomi Kaplan, who's going to help me out with some of our questions and questions

that we were sent in from our tenors. We have a good audience that loves your work. And I think

where we want to start off is hearing from you, how did you come up with the world for Keeper of

the Lost Cities? What inspired you to create this epic adventure? You know, I mean, it really came from

all different places. It was not one of those instances of just, you know, I sort of woke up and went, I know this entire story and this entire world. It kind of happened very gradually. I knew that I wanted to write about elves. And I had from, you know, starting a short story that was actually with Fitz's character.

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